I. Frantic 'midst the democratic storm -- The furies of hell -- Wicked little democrats -- Such mighty rage -- II. More turbulent than the men -- Determined enemies to good order -- The most abandoned of their sex -- Persistent amazons -- III. Monsters in female form -- Beyond expression horrible -- This infatuated family -- The she-champion of impiety -- IV. Women without masters -- Very clever, awfully revolutionary -- Petticoat government -- Epilogue : an ignorant woman.

"'Uncontrollable Women' is a history of radical, reformist and revolutionary women between the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and the passing of the Great Reform Act in 1832. Very few of them are well-known today; some were unknown even in their own day. All of them contributed something to the world we now inhabit. At a time when women were supposed to leave politics to men they spoke, wrote, marched, organised, asked questions, challenged power structures, sometimes went to prison and even died. History has not usually been kind to them, and they have frequently been pushed into asides or footnotes, dismissed as secondary, or spoken over, for, or through by men and sometimes other women. In this book, they take centre stage in both their own stories and those of others, and in doing so bring different voices to the more familiar accounts of the period."-- Provided by publisher.